i just loaded win98se with all the updates and a firewall to a small HD about 2 GB on my new PC and everthing is running fine. Now i wante to Fdisk & formate the HD on my older PC which has a much bigger HD about 10 GB and transferr everything on the small HD to the bigger one and use the bigger one in the new PC is there a free program that i can use to swap the OS on the small HD over to the bigger HD so i can use it in my new PC with out haveing to do a reinstall? i needed to use the older PC to have access to the net for trouble shooting till i got the new one up and running now that thats done i wante to use the bigger HD in my new PC and if so can both HDs be on the same ribbion to do the swap i dont have any more IDE plugs avble on my motherboard to add a new ribbon & HD. thaks for the help

Hi, Hard Disk Copy ( HDCOPY) gets some quite good reviews:- http://download.com.com/3000-2242-7628511.html?tag=lst-0-1 I've not used it though. hth Ceri

XXCOPY, a Versatile File Management Utility is previously recommended by someone around here, cann't remember who it was. Sorry! It looks promessing! "...can both HDs be on the same ribbion to do the swap..." Yes, just remember to setup them up as master-slave, on the drives and in your BIOS. Hope this helps. Greetz from The Netherlands, The Count

Hi.. You can use Ghost utility to transfer u r small HD data to Big HD. it copies u r hard disk to hard disk sector to sector wise and make the exact mirror copy. copy the ghost.exe file in u r bootable floppy, connect both u r hard disk to system boot from floppy run ghost select source hd and destination hd. thats all u have to do. U r big hd becomes mirror copy of small hd and all settings of u r fire wall and documents remain same. u can down load ghost.exe file from net at free of cost.

Although Ghost will do the job, it is not freeware. Follow The Count's advice & use xxcopy HTH Dave